Jun 01
In this day and age it is very important for all teachers to sharpen the saw during the school year breaks as well as throughout the school year. As more and more people are becoming reliant on the internet to know information more and more students are starting to feel like they do not need to go …
May 24
As memorial weekend is upon us most schools have shut their doors for the summer and now is the time for us teachers to recharge the batteries for next year. I do not know about you, but for me I end up putting so much into a school year from everything that takes place in …
May 17
via For those of us teachers out there the last few weeks of school can be some of the most challenging days in the school year because after pushing testing all year, when the tests have been completed the students have a tendency to think that school is done. Unfortunately, we usually close our testing …
May 03
If you are a tender hearted person that takes every little comment personally then teaching might not be the profession for you. The reason I say this is because no matter where you go, what you see, or even the students in your class you will hear some people say “if only there were better …
Apr 19
Every teacher needs to be respected in their classroom, and in this day in age it just does not come with the territory. The day and age of children respecting their elders has come and gone. There are still some out there that respect those in authority positions, but as parents have turned into friends, …
Mar 29
My students have to take tests constantly if it is not a chapter test that is coming up then it is a state mandated test. It seems like that is all we end up doing so by the end of the year with no immediate consequences on the line for them the state end of …
Mar 22
Some children today seem to have a very tough time visualizing the story in their mind. I do not know if that is because so many of them have since a very young age have had a television/computer screen do it for them or if as a society we are losing our imagination, but if …
Mar 16
One of things that I stress in my class is the truth, that I do not want my students to lie to me and I am not going to lie to them. This can come about in a variety of ways. Like if I promise them a prize or extra credit for doing something above …
Mar 08
One of the things that I pride myself in is to get my students to really think for themselves in my classroom. Now you might be thinking that is a pretty dumb statement because that is the whole purpose of students going to school is learn how to think, but it seems anymore teachers are …
Feb 22
I think one of the main things that separate bad teachers from good, and good teachers from the great ones is how motivated their students are. Being a relatively young teacher, having only stepped into the classroom for the first time in the fall of 2002 as a classroom tutor for an inner city school …
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